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Office Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Montgomery Ala., Sept 14th, 1865.

Maj. Gen. H.E. Davies
Comdg Dist of Montgomery

[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]]

General,

A large quantity of Hospital Stores belonging to this Bureau stored in the Franklin Institute have been carried away from that building within the last few days. The loss was discovered last night.

The property consisted of shirts, drawers, sheets, pillow-cases, pillows, cover-lids, mosquito bars & bed-sacks. A portion was marked "St Marys Hospital." The exact amount is not known to me as my Quarter Master who is resposible for the property is absent. Persons living near the building say that the property, or a large portion of it, was carries away by a regiment camped near by. I respectfully request that measures be taken to recover the property, or a portion of it, and that if it was carried off by the troops they be assessed for the value thereof. As soon as my